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Ken Nnamani Turns 67 Today!

Happy birthday to the ex senate President..

Happy Birthday LLNP Sir U qo reach 150

lalasticlala:
Ken Nnamani Turns 67 Today!
Happy birthday to the ex senate President..

is He still alive? Funny!
Happy birthday!

okay.
thieves! all of them

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Good to see him again.
Happy birthday sir.

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My birthday in 2days abeg o

see lands

That's okay

The man that stopped third term.....
Igbo Kwenu.........................................Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
On a second note, a third term by OBJ government would have been better than Jonathan's clueless administration.
Igbos' are indeed doing well
Happy Birthday Sir
Kedu ka eke sa anyanwu?

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lalasticlala:
Ken Nnamani Turns 67 Today!

Happy birthday to the ex senate President..

I just like this guy. He is quite refined. No gra-gra, no ostentation. He does not engage in loud-mouthed hate speeches. Nigerians are still grateful to Sen. Ken Nnamani for saving them from former President Obasanjo's ambition. He stood his grounds and slugged it out with OBJ in 2006, when he announced the Senate's decision to throw out an amendment to Nigeria's constitution, that would have allowed OBJ to run for a third term.

lalasticlala:
Ken Nnamani Turns 67 Today!

Happy birthday to the ex senate President..

An interview was held with him sometime ago. Please read this.

Senate president can declare seats vacant –Nnamani | by

Ever since leaving the exalted seat of senate president in 2007, Dr Ken Nnamani has maintained a studied posture on national affairs, intermittently immersing himself in party issues and national commentaries. Emerging from the lacerations and even adulations of the abortion of the third term gambit of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, he zoomed straight into a group known as G21 which metamorphosed into the “PDP reform forum”. It earned him a suspension from the party.

His co-travellers like former House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Masari, and former Federal Capital Territory , FCT, Minister. Malam El-Rufai have since found succour in the bosom of All Progressives Congress ,APC. Nnamani speaks with calculated reluctance. He is wary or being misunderstood or catching the notch of an ever present newsmaker. He would prod consciously to know the last time he granted an interview or made head-lines. When he was told it had clocked two years down the line, he shrugged his shoulders and a tentative date was made.

The interview in Abuja was not to hold as he had to hurry off to his home state of Enugu for some engagements. Not to be swayed, Sunday Sun was hot on his heels to the coal city, where on a bright Sunday morning, we settled in his Amaechi – Awkananaw palatial home to do this interview. There were break-ups as his political associates and friends sauntered in for pleasantries. Howbeit, in three hours, the deed was done.

He relieves his tumultuous tenure over the third term gambit of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, daring apologists of the ex-president that no magic would have pulled through the plot under him as senate president. He reminisces on the toll it had on him and the technical fault he latched on to nail it. He sums it up in these words: “I had to be courageous to say, okay we have come to the end of the journey, no matter what it will cost me. It cost me quite a bit. There is a big sacrifice in making such a decision. I know certain entitlements that I never got.

"Don’t mind those who are boasting that if they had wanted it to succeed, they would have done it. I don’t know how else they would have made it to succeed. I don’t know the magic they would have done. I was on the saddle.”

He speaks on his struggle against what he termes “garrison politics in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, expressing delight that the buzzword in the party today is reform. Nnamani warns defectors from the PDP to the APC to thread softly as they risk losing their seats.

Evidently, with the power of hindsight, he declares “From the constitution, the powers of the senate president is enormous in matters like this. If he makes a pronouncement, he is just following the constitution. Even if they go to court, they will not be attending sittings, until the court adjudicates. I don’t think it is proper for them to jeopardize their positions in the National Assembly.

He further excoriates legislators who are dabbling into executive functions like empowerment schemes and constituency projects. “Anybody so desirous of making money, I think the legislative arm is the wrong place to go, because the opportunity for huge contracts and big business is not there, and it is understandable why it is so” he intones.

Nnamani also speaks on the proposed National Conference, suggesting that the six geo-political zones should be enshrined in the constitution, as well as fiscal responsibility, which is an ingenious variant of resource control. He votes for a two party system and non-negotiation of the unity of the country at the confab among other burning issues.

Here are excerpts from the encounter:

Ques: In a short while, the proposed National Conference will roll off. There are controversies over the mode of selection of delegates and the timing. Opposition to it also flows from the fact that previous ones were never put to use. How do you see it?

I think it is an excellent development. I praise the political courage of Mr. President to constitute the National Conference. Those who are talking about the timing, well, I don’t know when will be the best time. But I think it is appropriate that we do it since people are complaining that they are marginalised. So many people are bitter and it is important that we sit down and use ballot papers instead of bullets. So, I think we should dialogue even if we have gone to war, we will still sit down to talk. For Mr. President to initiate this, I think it is appropriate and necessary. Rather than complain, let us go find ways to discuss. The conference boils down to dialogue among different groups in Nigeria. I think it is a welcome development. Every person in my view, should give it a chance to succeed.

Ques: Pessimism on the outcome of the conference is predicated on the fact that previous ones were just mere talk-shops and no bite. Again, this is an election year. Do you not think it is a distraction?

I don’t believe it is a distraction because it is an election year, or a build up to a general election. In my view, if we have had several conferences that came to almost nothing, it does not mean that we will stop holding dialogue. Because people go to war and get killed does not mean that there will be no wars. What we should do is to think positively that this one will succeed. I said, it is good to use words rather than weapons. It is good to use ballot papers rather than bullets.

Ques: Then, what is key on your mind, to be addressed at the conference?

For instance, we have six geo-political zones which are not in the Nigerian constitution. That should be taken care of by this type of conference. We should now find a way of entrenching the zonal structure and get equality of zones just like we have equality of states though the South East has five states, one zone has seven, the rest six. Well, there are some states that have fewer local government areas than others. Bayelsa has about eight local governments. It is still a state. Kano has 44 it is still a state. There is equality of states.

Therefore, if we can entrench the zonal structure in our constitution, we will have equality of zones. Things should be shared according to that structure. In which case, no zone will feel alienated. If they like they can create more states. Like some states are creating what is called development areas, which is not part of the local government structure recognized by the constitution.

The constitution recognizes, 774 local governments. But some states have created what they have intelligently coined to be development areas. So, I think the confab could contribute towards getting the zonal structure entrenched. There are other areas that could be streamlined. http://www.dna-nigeria.com/senate-president-can-declare-seats-vacant-nnamani/

WHere has he gone to?

Perhaps he was the one that invited a coaster bus full of secondary school girls probably for a pre birthday?

Oya shortgun "comma" confam!!!

congrats sir!

This man was a strong looter.

football abi na politics age?,.....anyways happy buffday sir

Oh that's good

he is getting old

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HIM

na you wan kill am?

Macelliot:
is He still alive? Funny!

Happy birthday!

Nigerian politician=Nigerian Enemy

Happy birthday sir! Wishing you long life and prosperity

BreezyCB:
Happy Birthday LLNP Sir U qo reach 150

i go give am my life.

AdaNri1:
Nigerian politician=Nigerian Enemy

Are u avictim of bleeping?

I don't celebrate thieves and moral bankrupt individuals

Happy Born Day Onwa.